Lustig honored for his leadership and technical contributions in the
development of the RISC-V Memory Consistency Model

December 04, 2018 01:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

BERKELEY, Calif. & SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The RISC-V
Foundation, the non-profit corporation controlled by its members to
drive the adoption and implementation of the free and open RISC-V
instruction set architecture (ISA), today presented Daniel Lustig,
chairman of the RISC-V Memory Model Task Group and renowned research
scientist at NVIDIA Corporation, with the inaugural RISC-V Foundation
Board of Directors’ Award. This annual award recognizes RISC-V community
members for their dedicated leadership and continued technical
contributions to advancing the RISC-V ISA.

As a Chairman of the RISC-V Memory Model Task Group, Lustig led a team
of industry and academic experts in defining the RISC-V Memory
Consistency Model. Lustig is a Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA
Corporation known for his expertise in computer architecture, with a
particular focus on system architecture, memory system design and memory
consistency models.

“I am honored to receive the first RISC-V Foundation Board of Directors’
Award,” said Lustig. “The RISC-V Foundation’s open-source approach is
changing the way the industry collaborates – creating an ecosystem and
community like no other – allowing the best experts from academia and
industry to build, create and deliver. Thank you to the Board for this
honor.”

The Chairman of the RISC-V Foundation Board Krste Asanović congratulated
Lustig, saying, “He led an all-star team that tackled what is certainly
the most complex part of any ISA design, resulting in a formal
specification that is now ratified by the Board and that will provide a
solid foundation for all future RISC-V implementations and software
stacks. Through many long and arduous discussions, Daniel provided both
leadership and technical contributions in the development of the RISC-V
Memory Consistency Model. We thank Daniel for his sterling service and
are delighted to recognize him with this inaugural award.”

Lustig formally received the 2018 RISC-V Foundation Board of Directors’
Award at the RISC-V Summit on Dec. 4, 2018 at the Santa Clara Convention
Center.

RISC-V (pronounced "risk-five") is a free and open ISA enabling a new
era of processor innovation through open standard collaboration. Founded
in 2015, the RISC-V Foundation comprises more than 200 members building
the first open, collaborative community of software and hardware
innovators powering a new era of processor innovation. Born in academia
and research, RISC-V ISA delivers a new level of free, extensible
software and hardware freedom on architecture, paving the way for the
next 50 years of computing design and innovation.

The RISC-V Foundation, a non-profit corporation controlled by its
members, directs the future development and drives the adoption of the
RISC-V ISA. Members of the RISC-V Foundation have access to and
participate in the development of the RISC-V ISA specifications and
related HW / SW ecosystem. More information can be found at www.riscv.org.